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Pendleton should wait a year says jockey coach

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Victoria Pendleton

Victoria Pendleton: ‘too loose’ in saddle according to Steve Smith Eccles

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Jon Lees 8:01AM 21 FEB 2016 

STEVE SMITH ECCLES, the British Racing School jockey coach, on Saturday suggested Victoria Pendleton’s participation at the Cheltenham Festival should be deferred, believing the challenge has come a year too soon.

Former top jump jockey Smith Eccles, who rode more than 900 winners including three Champion Hurdles, said the double Olympic champion cyclist was “too loose” in the saddle and not yet ready to handle the hurly-burly of the St James’s Place Foxhunter Chase on the evidence of her hunter chase debut at Fakenham on Friday.

Pendleton’s ambitious bid to compete at next month’s meeting met with a setback in Norfolk when she was unseated from her intended Foxhunter mount Pacha Du Polder at the seventh fence.

Footage from the stewards’ scout camera that filmed the action from behind the runners revealed that the horse to Pacha Du Polder’s left Baltic Blue, who also unseated, had thrown out a hind leg as he tried to keep his feet and connected with Pendleton’s foot, contributing to her being ejected from the saddle.

‘She rides a little bit loose’

Smith Eccles said: “When I watched the race live I thought she’d just fallen off, but then I saw the angle from behind on The Morning Line. She didn’t fall off, she actually gets kicked by the other horse. That was unlucky and that’s probably why she came off.

“From a professional point of view I think she’s very loose in the saddle. I’d like to see her a bit more compact. It’s hard to explain to non-riders, but you can soon see whether a jockey has a good position in the saddle or is loose, and she rides a little bit loose.

“Fair play to her, though. She hasn’t been at it long – she’s had only half a dozen or so rides. She’s done really well, you have to take your hat off to her. But I don’t know whether I’d be letting my riders go round Cheltenham in her position.”

The former jockey continued: “At Fakenham she was on an odds-on favourite popping round out the back. You’re going to get a maximum field at Cheltenham and all the hurly-burly that comes with it, and on the strength of Friday I would be a little wary about letting her go round there.

“It’s only three weeks away. If she was going to have 30 rides in three weeks, great, but she’s going to have only a few. I’m not sure she’s going to improve that much.”

 

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